Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-08
peu.cr.cv ana Prosperity.

fho statements made by liable edit
oes'' aad eloquent statesmen" of
1he Republican persuasion in all
parts Of the country, during the last
Presidential campaign. to the effect
that the election of a Democrat to
the chief magistracy of the nation
would result in an utter, absolute and
univereal paralysis Of all branches
of industrial prosperity. The allega-
lions were also made that the Con-
fsderate debt would be paid. and
that the Southern negro would be
reduced back to slavery. This last
pas made peculiarly for the ear of
the colored voter.
One ceased to wonder that the
freedman should entertain the idea
that there might be some danger to
his newly acquired rights, when it
vas found that Northern Republicans
believed in the bugaboo which threat
ened the payment of the Confederate
debt. The statements about chaos
70 follow in the industries of the
country were generally accepted by
thousands, who always echo all the
nhibboleths of their party.
In spite Of all Cassandra walls the
people of the country elected Mr..
Cleveland. President. He was duly
1naugurated and he has now for
nearly two years been at the helm OF
tho Ship OF State. A Republican
senate has lost no opportunity to
make every movement of the Admin
istra.ion abortive. The Republican
press of the country has, as general
rule, pursued each item of Cleve-
lands policy with a malignity never
equalled. If the Administration
mourned, the Republicans jibed at
II tears. On holidays, when the
Democratic official piped, they
ocoffed his dancing to shame. In
tho phrase of the street, they would
let i'm neither fish nor cut bait.
The end of twelvemonth came
md the skies had not fallen in a
financial sense The very papers
which were saddest in their Jeremiad
about the time of the elections, con-
1essed that the year 1885 was more
prosperous than any had been for a
decade. They did not mention what
oiement had got into the problem to
ave the country from what they had
elatmed would be normal results of
= Democratic victory.
a second year has come to close
since Mr.. Cleveland entered the
White House, and 1886 was marked
" more prosperous than 1885. This
= ! fact acknowledged by the press
q the United States in every Com
znonwealth of the Union. There is
= universal coHcensus Of opinion on
this head.
The third year Of the new Demo-
cratic era opens with brighter prom
les, than any year since that in
which the war broke out. Business
q all sorts is on remarkably firm
basis. There is a confidence in
financial circles, a vigor in enter
prise, q living energy awake and at
work every where, such as we had
not known for a quarter of century.
The reports from the mills, the
mines, the farms, the shops Of all
gorts are to the effect that 1887 will be
= year of unprecedented progress,
prosperity and enterprise. The
pulses of energy are throbbing in
6very artery OF trade, and bright
6yed hope holds the helm of every
Industry in the land.
Now, all this is directly referable to
Ne presence of Democratic Presl-
1ont in Washington, and of the return
r : Democratic policy to guide the
Nation. Nor is the new order of things
<o be attributed SO much to what Mr..
cleveland and his Cabinet have done
= to what they have abstained from
Icing. The worst featured OF the Repub-
1lEan party has been in its smartness
: nd its energy. The lesson has been
5o well learned by the experienced
5latesmen Of the world, that the less
1overning there is, and the fewer
= " passed, the better the world is
-, that this view has been accepted
"a great statesmen as an axiom.
IT, the Republican party came into
Nv er without experience or the wis
N which grows out of it. Like the
~ hand at the bellows has done SO
that 1t has become a proverb,
NJ proceeded with more energy
- decretion. The result was very
1Dral-much coal was burned to no
1FPose, and the iron was often
tned withthe coal. Smart politi-
- always do more governing ten
-, and make more laws by the
ratio than statesmen are in the
g doing. The result is always
11ne. When the government
~ psople alone, let's business
1T the financial affairs of the
a1ons, men know what is to be,
know how to proceed. Men
- they are TO attend to their own
~ n their own way, and they
~ tkey can make calculations as
NJ results. They venture in busi-
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